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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

Cars That Think

So, I set about building an open-source ice tracker from DIY components that not only proved to be much, much cheaper but also much more capable than the commercial options. This is fast enough to identify wind waves, which typically have a frequency of about 0.2 Hz, and longer swells, which range from about 0.08

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. It would have been possible to have such information displayed on a smartphone, using a. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. Fast forward a dozen years.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. It would have been possible to have such information displayed on a smartphone, using a. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. Fast forward a dozen years.

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Search for Buried Treasure With This DIY Magnetometer

Cars That Think

The notion of being led to a hidden object by virtue of the magnetic anomaly it creates must have really intrigued my 9-year-old self, because a decade after seeing that movie I decided to build a circuit to measure the strength of Earth’s magnetic field. With that information, I constructed what’s called a fluxgate magnetometer.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Other than sports car wanna-bes, modern cars are so quiet that you hear tire/wind noise much more than engines. I see false information here. Reply ↓ ↑ report 3 Snowdog 6:22PM (4/17/2009) Totally agree. I have stated the same before. ↓ ↑ report 4 Tohe 11:54PM (4/17/2009) I want mine to play an ice-cream cart melody.

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